Thought-Building in Composition: A Training-Manual in the Method and Mechanics of Writing, with a Supplementary Division on Journalistic Writing as a Means of Practice
Thought-Building in Composition: A Training-Manual in the Method and Mechanics of Writing, with a Supplementary Division on Journalistic Writing as a Means of Practice
Excerpt from Thought-Building in Composition: A Training-Manual in the Method and Mechanics of Writing, With a Supplementary Division on Journalistic Writing as a Means of Practice A few words Of explanation are in place to teachers who may chance to see this booklet. First. The manual has been prepared as a manual of practice, not of theory. Purposely, the theory has been limited to bare essentials; for the author, re gretfully but surely, has been gradually forced to the conclusion that, under present educational condi ...
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Excerpt from Thought-Building in Composition: A Training-Manual in the Method and Mechanics of Writing, With a Supplementary Division on Journalistic Writing as a Means of Practice A few words Of explanation are in place to teachers who may chance to see this booklet. First. The manual has been prepared as a manual of practice, not of theory. Purposely, the theory has been limited to bare essentials; for the author, re gretfully but surely, has been gradually forced to the conclusion that, under present educational condi tions, the study of verbal expression in, anything but its fundamentals is better postponed to later college years, or at least reserved for the comparatively few students who Show especial ability or develop par ticular interest in it. Moreover, even the gifted and the specially interested are, at the age Of college fresh men, ordinarily not SO far advanced that extended practice in applying the foundation principles of the art will not be as good a training as they can have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Good. No DJ. Rubbing to all edges. A Training-Manual in the Method and Mechanics of Writing, with a Supplementary Division of Journalistic Writing as a Means of Practice. A few scattered underlines and margin notes throughout. Notes on inside front and back cover. Binding is tight. Rubbing to edges. From the Foreword: Attention is centered everywhere upon thought and the thinking of it, not upon form. By far the greatest difficulty that students seem to encounter is that of simple thinking--of master.
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